Obama Race Speech ‘Weak As Pre-Sweetened Kool-Aid’

On NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, PBS host Tavis Smiley – the same man who once said that Ronald Reagan “tortured” blacks, despite a declining black unemployment rate of 9 percent – mildly praised President Obama’s race-centric speech to the nation on Friday about Trayvon Martin. “He was pushed to that podium,” said Smiley, “I’m glad he finally arrived.” Smiley had no comment on the devastating continuance of skyrocketing black unemployment, although he did call the president’s speech “weak as pre-sweetened Kool-Aid.”

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